Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor’s Articles at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life, Page 60

Within less than one week of launching our effort to gather details of mental health professionals willing to provide support for those affected by the tsunami in southern Asia, we have been contacted by counsellors, therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists and others in 10 countries volunteering a total of well over 2000 hours of time.

CounsellingResource.com is coordinating an international effort to collect details of professionals willing to volunteer free mental health support to those affected by the southern Asia tsunami, including those living in affected countries, those who have lost loved ones in the natural disaster, and aid workers bringing assistance to affected countries.

Under the guise of exploring trust within the profession, the BBC’s influential Radio 4 programme Today has highlighted the case for statutory regulation of psychotherapy practice, drawing an analogy with the regulation of medical professions such as radiology.

Our discussion and support forum opens a dedicated section for those whose lives have been affected by the 2004 earthquake and tsunami which struck in southern Asia. If you are involved in the relief effort, if you have lost friends or relatives in the tragedy, or if you are just trying to come to grips with the sheer cost of the tsunami in terms of human life and suffering, please join us.

For students as well as mental health professionals in practice, our free clinical hours logbook software makes recording client contact hours almost (almost!) fun. The free logbook, newly updated for the coming year, automatically calculates total hours spent with each client each month, plus total clinical hours over the course of a year.